[ SECRET POST #3771 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3771 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[dancing_serpent]

Well, of course it will have many more Kudos. That's pretty much the point. Someone up-thread mentioned authors taking up shelf space by posting lots of separate fics. But those collections take up the best place on the shelf because they have the most Kudos. And it's so misleading, because even if someone waded through 30 chapters and only like one fic in that collection, the Kudos goes to the whole thing. People sorting by Kudos will have those collections clogging up the top spots in every major fandom - to the point that sorting by Kudos has almost become meaningless now.

So, one side calls the other attention grabbing and gets called fishing for Kudos in return. *g*

[ketita]

Well, lose-lose is best, no? :P

And I mean, if somebody wants to give kudos to the whole thing even if they only liked one chapter, it's their prerogative... Plenty of people read things and don't leave kudos. So I'm not too bugged by it, though I mean the most-kudo'd fics in any fandom tend to be shitty anyway. Usually it'll be some smutty melodramatic slog-fest. Either way, your scroll button gets a workout.

And again, in my case - I felt comfortable doing it only because I do think that somebody who likes one of the fics will probably enjoy most of them. They're all on the scale from fluffy to melancholy (sometimes both in the same ficlet), no mega-angst, no big warnings necessary, no smut, mostly canonverse, all same pairing.

In short, I don't think any system is perfect.

eta: I agree with you that people who tag multiple pairings or things like that are annoying because they force you to hunt through multiple chapters in the vain hope you'll find that one pairing.

[dancing_serpent]

Haha, yes. Lose-lose sums it up best. *g*

the most-kudo'd fics in any fandom tend to be shitty anyway
Oh yeah. And mostly full of the current favourite tropes, too. I've been sorting by bookmarks for a while now. Kudos is given far too easily, but someone bookmarking because they liked it enough to want to read the fic again, or have the link available for reccing - that helps me a lot more. (Not that the results are all that different from the ones when one sorts by Kudos...)

Nope, you're right. No perfect system. And the search function is not perfect, either, and that's not helping with the issue.

[ketita]

That's been a fandom problem since the dawn of time. And not just fandom - popularity isn't much of a guarantee of quality in any medium.